Type designer Michael Doret has written an interesting account of how his Deliscript has come full circle, inspiring new branding by Canter's Delicatessen – the brand that originally inspired Doret's font.

Confusing, right? In his own words:

“...I had set wheels in motion that would eventually bring my work to the attention of one of the youngest and most creative members of the Canter family. She and her sister Dena had Googled “Canter’s Deli” and “Font” hoping to find an interesting font that they could use to design their truck. What they found was my blog where I had written about Deliscript and how their restaurant’s neon sign had served as my initial inspiration. But she realized that rather than just purchasing Deliscript and trying to design the truck themselves, that they might achieve better results by actually hiring the designer who had found inspiration in their signage.”

You can read the full post (and see some great detail shots of the truck) over at the AIGA Los Angeles website.

Restarchitektur translates to 'remainder architecture'. At least, that's what Babelfish tells me. in his Restarchitektur series, German photographer Marcus Buck shows disappeared buildings through the marks they left behind. His photos remind me of a clip from Architecture School, where an architect 'reads' the foundation of a home swept away by Hurricane Katrina. (To watch the video, click here and then choose web extras.) He calls it a living floor plan, but the idea is the same. Who knew the traces of missing architecture could be this fascinating and full of stories?

You might love this. We had some iPads customized by the folks at ColorWare and one of them is up for grabs this week.

All you have to do is enter the Where Did You Take Your Activity Book? contest, ending September 7, 2010. Grab your copy of the Super Incredible Activity Book for Creatives, or open the PDF on your laptop or mobile device, or just print the cover. Then head somewhere interesting and take a photo of yourself enjoying the book.

E-mail your photo to ideas@veer.com to enter.

The most amazing photo (as judged by our in-house panel of Amazingness Enthusiasts) will win the iPad, and ten runners-up will win fabulous merch prizes. Good luck!

If you didn't get your hands on a printed copy of the Super-Incredible Activity Book for Creatives in our latest mail-out, we've got you covered. There are plenty of other ways to enjoy Veer's seventh annual activity book – including printable PDFs and a special iPad version (with drawing tools!).

Get your copy of 100 pages of images, fonts, and amusements!

We've posted about Lizette Greco before - she's the artist/mom behind the fantastical stuffed creatures based on her children's drawings.

Here, the trio has created their very own butcher shop, with childish renditions of cuts of meat, cleavers, and handmade signs. Welcome to South Park Quality Meats, as imagined by 7-year old Enzo and 9-year old Sophia.

via she is king

An interactive piece by Qubibi on the theme of India for the magazine Pen. I tried translating through babelfish and this is part of what I got ->...it accumulates [karuma] by the fact that the rolling and the child are made, falls eventually to Ganges and death is purified to visit, with new caste is born and changes - I'll do no better than that. On a side note Qubibi also recently created this screensaver titled hello world which couples nicely with Qubibi's India.

Nate Williams put together this submissions based letter interpretation project kind of like Word it but nice and trim, one letter at a time...I've been trolling through these for a while now...not sure how long it's been up but it's great, see for yourself.

August 28th is International Read Comics in Public Day. This event was organized by a small group of radicals aiming to overthrow the novel-and-newspaper hegemony we've suffered under for too long. Or maybe they just want to hang out and read cool stuff on the weekend. Either way, it's time to head down to your local comics shoppe or library and get some suitable reading material. Pick up anything by Ariel Schrag, Jessica Abel or the late, great Harvey Pekar, and you'll be set for a perfect day of public reading.

Lisa Brawn makes woodcuts from salvaged wood. She paints the woodcuts and her colour choices seem to suit each piece perfectly. I saw some of these at Art Central a few months back and they are darn good looking in person. I am with want.

She uses Phaeton on her website, too. Nice.

The antediluvian art of the album cover doesn't get much love these days, which makes it even more exciting to come across something special. Biffy Clyro hasn't yet set the world on fire, but the art for their 2009 release Only Revolutions is striking and dramatic. And it has a good pedigree, too: designed by Storm Thorgerson, the man responsible for, well, pretty much any trippy album cover you can think of. Nice to see that the hoary old album cover still has devotees thinking bigger than thumbnail size.